Shortly after moving to my new house about 2 mles away I became infatuated with the aeroport. It was boarded up and obviously in disrepair. During the rainy season the airplane which was tethered to the building and a tree would rise with the river until it was clearly visible from the road. After it was dry I was able to climb in through a window. A heavy layer of silt covered the entire ground floor. The plane in the lower level had obviously been under water many times. There were seveal engine hoists with old airplane rotary engines in the larger room. Lots of parts and tools were scattered about. There was no sign of vandalism or theft, just the layers of silt over everything. There were clear rings on the walls around the room marking annual high water marks. On this first trip I climbed up the rung ladder to the ground floor.

There are three rooms on the ground floor, the largest of which was a machine shop. There were lathes and presses and other machinery. Boxes of expensive metal working tool sets lay open on counters next to half assembled parts. It was if everybody left for lunch and never came back. There was almost no room to move with all the tools and machines. The smallest room was like a storage area filled with crap. I was clearly visible through the window to the active buildings across the street, and the cars that pulled up at the intersection only 30 feet away. The third room, the office, was a massive pile of papers. Flight manuals, parts catalogs, unopened mail...A desk literaly awash with refuse. I found unopened postmarked mail from 1994.
The sliding doors on the side of he building lead up to a large open room. The stairs going up were a mass of junk, buckets and parts. The great room contained a whole plane, without an engine, broken into parts. I can't imagine how they got it up there. The pontoons alone would never make it up the stairs. They must have hoisted it through the roll up door in the front of the building. There was a landing outside with fake grass carpet, as if people would lounge out there while planes came and went.

The airport will be demolished soon, as will the State farm house- part of the CT river greenway project. The airport will become a parking area at the end of the bike trail, and the 50+ acres of the farm will be tennis courts and soccer fields. The barn will most likely be made into a visitor center and bath house.